Why shouldn't children be bathed before bed?

Nothing relaxes you after a hard day's work like a warm bath. Only a glass of good wine can compete with this procedure.

That's for us adults, but what about children?

Now we're going to break the mold.

You can often hear from friends, grandmothers, and doctors that it is especially sad that bathing a child before bedtime is almost a sacred duty of every mother

The argumentation is ironclad: the child will get tired, relax, and sleep better

How these 3 states are combined is a mystery.

Apparently, the study of pediatric neurophysiology has not suffered.

Has anyone ever tracked the pattern of colic in babies? It is surprising that they occur before bedtime and after a bath.

Is it a coincidence?

Why is bathing before bedtime fraught with difficulties in laying down and restless sleep?

It's all about the baby's unstable and immature nervous system. Any external influence on it is comparable to a fire in which gasoline is poured. Every day, the child gets acquainted with the world, and as a result, he or she receives a vivid emotion for new actions and sensations.

Emotion is a complex neurochemical cocktail.

A child's worldview looks completely different from that of an adult. Taking a bath is a complex process that affects the body's sensory systems.

There are two of them - primary and secondary sensory systems.

A child does not perceive a bath as an opportunity to wash.

It is a multi-component process that begins with undressing in the bedroom/bathroom and ends with dressing the child after bathing.

Bathing includes facial expressions and gestures of the parents, noise, sound, changes in temperature in different rooms, water temperature, its resistance, and the child's activity during bathing.

As a result, the child is excited by dozens of sensory stimuli at night.

For me, a somnologist, the recommendation to bathe for a good night's sleep sounds like "unscientific advice from an old lady on the bench"

To be fair, it is worth noting that there are children who fall asleep easily after a home water park

But such children have no problems with sleep in principle.